by Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856 - 1935)
The kiss
Language: English
Heap slumber on your eyes; Stop your mouth with dust; Be all that you were not, As dead folk must. Be all that you were not, Unmindful, cold, apart — The kiss you gave that dusk Tears at your heart!
Confirmed with Lizette Woodworth Reese, Wild Cherry, Baltimore, Md: The Norman, Remington Co, 1923.
Authorship:
- by Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856 - 1935), "The kiss", appears in Wild Cherry [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949), "The kiss", op. 152 (Five Songs) no. 2 (1942) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2022-01-22
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